Dark Envoy

Это скорее диаблойд с функцией тактической паузы, не знаю, у меня такое впечатление сложилось Персонажи чересчур нереалистичные, несмотря на мрачность происходящего вокруг, всё будто бы пропитано ванильностью. Акт 3 до безобразия затянут, на волевых проходил, просто чтобы закончить игру, скучно. Разработчикам надо было брать пример с Dragon Age первой + добавить что-то свое, а сейчас эта игра в принципе играбельна, но че так скучно то а?

This will be a long review. So if you don't want to read a wall of text then I would say that this is a definite no buy 3/10 game. There are pieces of fun here and there, but they are mired in a bog of bugs, glitches, and gameplay decisions. There is no reason this game should even be $10, let alone the $30 they are asking for with all the issues. I got this through a humble bundle and still feel like I paid too much. To start I will just get the graphics/sound out of the way as I'm not much of a critic on those topics. The graphics are serviceable for the most part when things are working properly. Nothing that will wow you or have you staring at the monitor for hours on end, but still nothing too harsh. The character models and animations are a little stiff and awkward, but serviceable. The sound is okay as well with nothing really standing out. Some of the character dialogues sounded like they were voiced by AI, though I didn't see the AI tag on the game. So overall I'd give it a middle of the road 5/10 for both. For the story. I can't really say much good about it. It was a generic adventure with generic points that it hit up to the point I was able to get to. A friend and I played this and we ran into a game ending bug where no matter what we did we would get the same black screen after loading in. We tried loading previous saves and trying other solutions, but the main mission had our game bricked. And this didn't happen in the beginning or towards the beginning of the game. This occurred in the 3rd act close to the end from what I looked up. So for story I can only give it a 0/10 since it wasn't even completable. When it comes to the loot/items, they were fine. You get to a point though where you are pretty much finding identical items over and over, even the uniques, because you've found the full loot table. There may have been a few uniques that I did not see though because of the campaign ending bug. So I'd give loot/items a 5/10. The crafting mechanics are where the game actually had some good ideas. I was able to fully kit out my character the way I wanted with the build I was going (Ranger/Sharpshooter with over 100% crit and 555% crit damage). On my Technomancer I was able to stack ability power to help with their skills, so kudos to this part of the game. I will lump the enchanting in here as well, which was easy to do once you get the last research that lets you change an enchantment. The enchantment felt like it had some good ideas so not bad on that as well. So overall I'd put crafting and enchanting at a 7/10. For the skills I will just immediately put it at a 1/10, and even that is being generous. There are a few good skills that you will just spam over and over because something with the coding has to be bad. For instance, the Sharpshooter has a skill just before their 'ultimate' that claims it does more base damage than the 'ultimate' itself. Though when I used this skill it would barely tickle the enemy, if it even did any damage at all. This was the case for several other skills within the Ranger, Adept, Summoner, Gunslinger, and Bounty Hunter (all classes that I used). I can only assume this is similar for the other classes, my friend did say multiple times that skills weren't doing what they claimed. Then on to the issues with the balancing of skills. For the Ranger their ultimate is supposed to shoot a bullet that bounces off targets and hits each of them only once. Then you have an ultimate like the Technomancers. This skill summons a large AOE lightning storm that strikes targets for (at max level) 100 base damage for each bolt that hits. And this storm shoots 20 lightning bolts. So you can do maybe 200 damage to one target as a Ranger with your ultimate, or you can decimate whole groups of enemies with over 2,000 damage as a Technomancer. And lastly I will comment upon bugs. Oh boy, the bugs. I'm pretty sure that the Starship Troopers movie series had less bugs in it if you were to count them all up. As my friend and I played I would constantly run into a new one, so much so that I lost count of them all. Here are just a few: constant rubber banding where orders or movements would yank you back to your original spot (even for my friend who was the host, how the hell does that even happen?); graphical issues where my friend and I saw two separate things playing the same game (one where a skill would crystallize the user of the item instead of the enemy); black screens after cinematics (sometimes a black screen after every single cinematic); a film grain like look over the screen where I wasn't able to open menus, escape, or move; the overworld map zoomed in every time we went to it (usually I could move and fix it, but sometimes that wouldn't work); the overworld map zooming in and causing points of interest pictures to become angled as the camera floated upwards; could only buy one item at a time from a vendor or else it wouldn't purchase anything past the first item; a skill being cast but still being able to cast it again (I was able to use lightning strike 2 times back to back on more than once occasion). That is just a few of the bugs my friend and I ran into. To get to where we were in the game was just a pure slog through bugs and issues. What little we could play without issue had some fun to it.